EXERCISES. I. Find in the text the English equivalents to:

I. Find in the text the English equivalents to:

деловые люди; страх перед компьютерами; испытывать тошно­ту; высокое кровяное давление; математический смысл (значение); старомодные компьютерные системы; выглядеть устрашающе; мер­цающие огни; вращающиеся катушки; временные приспособления; по ошибке; обвинять компьютеры; исправлять ошибки; установить терминалы; использовать клавиатуру; потерять статус; попасть в «дурные» руки; нанести непоправимый ущерб; невостребованная почта; заполнить бланк; записать в компьютерный файл; создать законы для защиты общества.

II. True or false?

1. People are not interested in computers, they just don't want to be left behind.

2. Computers are going to make many careers obsolete.

3. Most jobs will be lost because of computers.

4. Computers change the way jobs are performed.

5. People who refuse to have anything to do with computers may soon be regarded as people who refuse to learn to drive.

6. Computers are powerful, potentially dangerous tools with a life of

their own.

7. Most of businesspeople write or commission their own programs.

8. Computers are now smaller and more powerful than ever before.

9. Computers have resulted in massive unemployment in many coun­tries.

10. Managers with little or no computer experience should overrely on

computers.

11. Computers can result in an invasion of people's privacy.

12. Today the challenge is to manage the information explosion through

the use of well-designed information.

13. Data = information.

14. Computerization leads to elimination of workers'jobs (robots) and white-collar jobs (computers).

15. The bank computer thefts are carried out by computer whizzes who

know the correct codes to use to access accounts in order to steal or manipulate money.

16. In a few seconds computer can make a mistake so great that it would

take many months to equal it.

17. Computer monitoring of people leads to job stress and more fre­quent illnesses.

18. One person's error is another person's data.

19. To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.

III. Give definitions to:

a computer whiz (whizard), a hacker, a computer-literate person, a computer science student, a computer engineer, a computer programmer, a computer operator.

e.g. a system analyst is a person who identifies the information needed and develops a management info system with the assistance of computer programs.

IV. Give synonyms to:

swift, costly, financial standing, to introduce into, to obtain, issue, to concern, tiny, magic, artificial, to turn on, accurately, anxiety, fear, to lead to, old-fashioned command, to spin, to require.

V. Give antonyms to:

fraud, tiny, fragile, fearful, to frustrate, dead, intelligent, capable, short-lived, damage, to find jobs, slow, to foul up.

VI. Put the proper words into sentences

mistakes/errors, time, use/operation, improving, human, are, accura­cy, so, part/role, make, involved, since, back, ever, replaced, more.

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